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To: kumar who wrote (104159)	7/6/2003 4:44:48 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Zimbabwe calls Powell 'Uncle Tom' guardian.co.uk Zimbabwe hurled racial epithets at the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, yesterday, including branding him an "Uncle Tom" after his attack on President Robert Mugabe in the New York Times last week. ...Mr Powell was described in the state-controlled Herald paper as "a disgraceful Uncle Tom who always sang his master's voice to the detriment of social justice and the rights of people of colour"... US disgusted by racial slurs against Powell iol.co.za The United States expressed "profound disgust" at "personal attacks and racial slurs" made in Zimbabwe's state-owned media against the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, as he reiterated his call that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "must go". The attacks on Powell came in the wake of his dismissal of Mugabe as a tyrannical ruler...

To: kumar who wrote (104159)	7/6/2003 4:47:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Kumara. Bush is eyeing Liberia and I'm wondering if he really has got a taste for dealing with evil, criminal thugs. I don't mind him using my taxes for such a purpose. I was kidding that Mugabe and Taylor would be next, but maybe I'm wrong and Bush is really going to sort out Liberia. Descendants of slaves in the USA will return to free their cuzzie bros from modern mayhem. That's quite fun. Slavery was in the end a good thing overall, despite a lot of whining about it and completely absurd talk of compensation of melanin-rich people in the USA who never experienced slavery, by people such as yourself, whose ancestors didn't own slaves in the USA. Better to be a slave in the USA under Jefferson than a slave in olde Africa, or modern Africa for that matter. Do you think you should compensate Tiger Woods, or Condoleezza Rice, or Colin Powell, or his son, or Michael Jackson, or wacko Jackson or Thomas Sowell or .... etc ...? Anyway, there's another election soon, so that'll test the waters. I suspect Osama is right and Americans won't have much taste for casualties in order to build an empire. So I doubt that Liberia and Rwanda and Zimbabwe and Congo and the litany of horror stories in Africa will be getting much attention. Especially since there's no oil and no terrorism coming out of that area that affects Americans. Mqurice Edit... what laugh. I hadn't seen this. <Zimbabwe hurled racial epithets at the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, yesterday, including branding him an "Uncle Tom" after his attack on President Robert Mugabe in the New York Times last week. ...Mr Powell was described in the state-controlled Herald paper as "a disgraceful Uncle Tom who always sang his master's voice to the detriment of social justice and the rights of people of colour"... > Mugabe just sealed his fate. Goodbye Mugabe. Back to the jungle for you. You wore the silly hats and fancy suits but couldn't quite manage the modern world. Marxism, racism and totalitarianism was LAST century. Silly boy. King George II will send his house-boy and girl for a friendly chat with that uppity Mugabe. Americans won't take kindly to having their Secretary of State insulted like that. Harry Belafonte could foam at the mouth, but he's just a has-been Banana Boat singer [who got money from me for his happy songs]. Heads of thugocracies should be more circumspect. I can't remember, but "His Master's Voice" might have been the label on which Harry put out his records. That's the brand which had the dog listening to the hand-wound gramophone speaker. Which my grandmother had in the 1950s. 78 rpm and the needles were all dull. Nutcracker Suite, Tommy Trinder's stage show ... the good old days... Good grief, Google knows a lot. I asked and sure enough, Tommy Trinder is there nostalgiacentral.com